Inside the Vatican with Vatican Insider

La Stampa's new multilingual portal with news and information about all aspects of the Vatican provided by leading experts in the field, is now online

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Is it possible to discuss Vatican matters and the Catholic Church in general in a non biased way, without feeling the need to take sides, in a serious and independent manner, in an attempt to understand the way it works and describe its key figures? Can exclusive news be given without the titles being distorted?

This is precisely what Vatican Insider (www.vaticaninsider.com), the new multilingual portal launched by the Italian daily newspaper "La Stampa" aims to do. The website will offer news and information regarding all aspects of the Vatican, the Pope's activities and the Holy See, the international presence of the Catholic Church and religious issues in general.

The most innovative element of this independent multimedia information channel which is online as of today, is that unlike any previous project of its kind, it groups together some of the world's leading experts (the full list is available here: http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/homepage/chi-siamo/), journalists who are united their goal of providing news, in-depth analysis, interviews and authoritative and reliable analysis, covering all geographic areas.

By visiting the Vatican Insider website you can get information about the Pope's agenda and the main events relating to the Holy See, taking place each day, week and month. You can get to know the Vatican world's key figures from close up.

Our philosophy is to try not to take anything for granted and to reach as wide an audience as we can, with information aimed at a non-specialist public: this is why next to the news and inquest items our readers will find "help" articles which give explanations of names, functions, responsibilities, rites and traditions relating to the smallest state in the world, home to the spiritual leader of over one million Catholics.

La Stampa's new information channel directed by the newspaper's editor Mario Calabresi and managed by Paolo Mastrolilli and Marco Bardazzi will be available in Italian, English and Spanish and diffused across digital and social network platforms.

Readers will be able to get news and in-depth analysis updates and access videos and photo galleries and dedicated special sections, for free, seven days a week. A subscriber's section reserved for use by newspapers and editorial partners is also available, containing services for journalists, inquests, interviews and exclusive information packages.

After a 24/48 hour period, after the articles in the subscriber section have been made available exclusively to the VaticanInsider's editorial partners, these will be moved to the public homepage where they can be consulted by everyone.